2. All schools like colleges should be assessed continuously by NAACS (NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDIATION COUNCIL FOR SCHOOLS) like dedicated institutions.

3. All boards (both all India and state) should come under a single national level board arbitrarily named "National Board for Secondary Education in India (NBSEI)" which is just like Universities lending their affiliation to various colleges. There should only be a single board in the country which will control all other boards that earlier existed. All boards currently present in India should ask for affiliation from NBSEI (National Board for Secondary Education in India) within 3 months of its creation by registering their board under NBSEI (National Board for Secondary Education in India) .This should be done in order to ensure equity to students from different boards.This board National Board for Secondary Education in India (NBSEI) will set same question papers for all students in the country and will also decide the marking scheme so that all students are marked in the same way. This board will decide the common syllabi for all subjects to be taught at schools.

3.1 A separate “Education Deposit Fund” should be made where all the money the government gets from schools & other sources for education will be stored.

3.2 REGISTRATION of all schools and boards spread all over India

REGISTRATION FEE has to be paid by schools and boards and it can charge students for this fee.

All boards currently present in India should ask for affiliation from NBSEI (National Board for Secondary Education in India) within 3 months of its creation by registering their board under NBSEI (National Board for Secondary Education in India) by paying Rs 500 per school(Rs 100 for government boards) per year affiliated under them. Now all schools in India are automatically affiliated by NBSEI (National Board for Secondary Education in India) .So every year the private urban and town schools needs to pay Rs 500 per student per year for continual affiliation from NBSEI (National Board for Secondary Education in India) while rural schools only needs to pay Rs 10 per student per annum.The government run schools needs to pay Rs 100 per student per annum.The rates have been fixed like these because affordable private schools in India charge Annual tuition fees ranging between Rs 36,000 to Rs 60,000,while a Government schools charges Annual tuition fees ranges between Rs 12,000 to Rs. 25,000.

There are more than 10,000 CBSE schools in India , 1700 ICSE Schools in India, 20,000(approx) state government schools in India.So the cost of affiliation per year for CBSE = Rs 100* 10,000 = Rs 10lakhs.The cost of affiliation per year for ICSE = Rs 500* 1700 = Rs 8.5 lakhs The cost of affiliation per year for state boards = Rs 100* 20,000 = Rs 20 lakhs.+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total cost that boards have to bear for affiliation = Rs 38.5 lakhs per year.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

There are only 30 million(3crore) secondary school children in India out of which only 6.2 million(62 lakh) students study in private schools and the 0.8 million (8lakhs) study in rural schools and the rest 23 million (2.3 crore)students study in government schools

4. Cost of assessing per school will be only Rs.50 per student per year (Rs 20 per student per year for schools in rural areas). Assessment of schools should be made mandatory and schools have to bear the cost of assessment.Schools can only charge Rs.25 from urban school children and Rs 5 from rural school children for assessment of schools. Cost of assessing urban schools = Rs 50* 2, 92, 00,000 =Rs 146 crores per yearCost of assessing rural schools = Rs 20* 8, 00,000 =Rs 1.6 crores per year+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Total amount generated from schools for assessment = Rs 147.6 crores per year -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

School assessed should be graded in the following format:

FIVE STAR SCHOOL – THE BEST SCHOOL (Both Academically and Non-academically)FOUR STAR SCHOOL –THE BEST SCHOOL (Academically)THREE STAR SCHOOL - THE BEST SCHOOL ( Co-Academic Activities)TWO STAR SCHOOL – THE BEST SCHOOL (Impact on Society)ONE STAR SCHOOL – THE BEST SCHOOL (Faculty wise)A+ - EXCELLENTA - VERY GOODB+ - GOODC+ - SATISFACTORYC - POORD - UNSATISFACTORYNow what should be done once the grading is done is that the those schools falling under category “C” and ” D “ should be served a maximum of 2 warnings per year and if even after the warnings schools fail to improve they should face severe punishment like DE-affiliation along with fine of Rs 10000 per student(Rs 100 per student in rural areas) . Star schools and schools with grades A+ would be rewarded with cash. This will ensure schools provide quality education. Rural schools who fall under poor and unsatisfactory category will be dealt leniently. Rural schools will be given five warnings with gap of six months between warnings.

5. Education Tax should be included along with Income Tax whose interest rates should be :Less than Taxable Income = 0.5% per annumRs 1,80,001 – Rs 5,00,000 = 1% per annumRs 5,00,001 – Rs 8,00,000 = 2% per annumRs 8,00,001 upwards = 3% per annumThe amount of money generated from Education Tax wiil go to “Education Deposit Fund”.Education Tax to be deducted along with Income Tax.Education Tax fixed at rate 1% will be included within VAT(Value Added Tax). VAT is the indirect tax on the consumption of the goods, paid by its original producers upon the change in goods or upon the transfer of the goods to its ultimate consumers. It is based on the value of the goods, added by the transferor. It is the tax in relation to the difference of the value added by the transferor and not just a profit

6. All students whose annual family income is less than INR 45,000 should be allowed to purchase Application forms for competitive exams & Colleges/Government Schools Admission form free of cost be. This will ensure that all poor and needy meritorious students can have access to education.

6.1FUNDING:

All applicants who buy the Application Forms need to pay extra Rs.10 which should be included in the Application Fee for the funding of forms for poor and needy meritorious students. Banks distributing forms cannot charge poor and needy meritorious students for the Application Forms.

Applicants who fail to clear the eligibility criteria for the competitive exams shall be allowed to sit for the competitive exam after paying a fine of Rs 1000 along with fees of both test(screening and main). 50% of this money will go to the “Education Deposit Fund” and the rest 50% goes to the institute. These applicants will have to appear for screening test before sitting for the main examination.Funds for Application forms of poor and needy meritorious to be provided from “Education Deposit Fund”.

7.Maximum fees to be charged by a private educational institute should be fixed by the government. Impediments in the way of setting up for-profit private schools/colleges should be removed. Today, only a charitable trust can set up educational institutions. Therefore, honest entrepreneurs interested in making profits will not get involved in spending their time and setting up quality educational institutions. The result is that only criminals who plunder money illegally in the name of "charitable trusts" get involved in providing education, and make money through capitation fees. To stop this, the government should allow for for-profit companies to set up educational institutions. This move will result in considerable capital flowing into the education sector. These colleges so set up will still come under the purview of the education ministries around the country, and so the government can still regulate the fees charged for providing the education. This is akin to regulating the distribution of power in Mumbai and Delhi. The government regulator only decides the upper limit cost per unit of power. Similar regulation now exists in telecom. Therefore it is perfectly possible to bring about the same in education as well. Any hike in fees should at first be reported to government and if the government permits then only fees could be hiked. Violation of this law will lead to severe punishment like Fines & DE-affiliation.

8. Student: Teacher ratio law :-1:20 – EXCELLENT1:25 - VERY GOOD 1:30 - GOOD1:35 - SATISFACTORY1:40 - POOR1:45 - UNSATISFACTORYNow what should be done is that the those schools falling under categories "POOR OR UNSATISFACTORY" should be served a maximum of 2 warnings per academic year and if even after the warnings schools fail to improve they should be DE-affiliated and schools with “EXCELLENT” Student :Teacher ratio should be rewarded. This will ensure quality in education.

9. 25% Reservation of seats for poor in all private schools should be made mandatory and violation of the law will lead to severe punishment.

10. Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education should be implemented properly . It ensures every child have Right to Free and Compulsory Education till age 14,but what happens after that.

11. Government should provide full scholarships to the needy and the poor meritorious students till the age of 18.The child who doesn't get the scholarship can opt for special educational loan(Level 1) which he/she needs to re-pay back 3 years after getting job .Government should also set up more government schools for the needy and the poor ones.

12.After a needy and poor child has finished his 12th and gets admission to any college or institute only on basis of merit , government should provide him/her with special educational loan(Level 2) which he/she needs to re-pay back 5 years after getting job.

13.The government must introduce Special educational loan in all banks--

a. What is Special educational loan (Level 1 &2)?Ans : Level 1 loan is only for poor and needy Students perusing Education in schools and Level 2 is only for poor and needy Students perusing Higher Education.(after class 12)

b. How much Loan he/she can get under Special educational loan (Level 1)?Ans: Students can borrow up to Rs 4 lakh without providing any security.

c. What is the Interest rate charged for Special educational loan (Level 1)?Ans: NIL

d. How much Loan he/she can get under Special educational loan (Level 2)?

Ans: For Studies in India , Students can borrow up to Rs 10 lakh and for Studies in Abroad, Students can borrow up to Rs 20 lakh.

e. What is the Interest rate charged for Special educational loan (Level 2)?Ans: - 2% per annum in India and 8% per annum outside India.

f. Repayment of Special educational loan - Level 1- Course period + 6 years or 3 years after getting job, whichever is earlier.Level 2 - Course period + 6 years or 3 years after getting job, whichever is earlier.

14. Caste based reservation should be replaced by Annual Family Income based reservation.

Annual Family Income Based Reservation is as follows:

Category 1: less than INR 30, OOO per annum - 10% seat reservation.

Category 2: less than INR 60, OOO per annum but more than INR 30,OOO per annum --------------------------------- 7% seat reservation.

Category 3: less than INR 1, 00, OOO per annum but more than INR 60,OOO per annum----------------------------4% seat reservation.

Category 4: less than INR 2,50,OOO per annum but more than INR 1,00,OOO per annum-----------------------------3% seat reservation.

If any seats from any category remains unfilled it will be added to the next category and even if seats remain unfilled it will be added to the General category.PROCEDURE FOR REGISTRATION FOR Annual Family Income Based Reservation (AFIBR)• For the purpose of determining the annual Income from all sources of Parents / Guardians of students an officer of the State Government in the rank of Block Development Officer or above in the districts / their equivalent counterparts (Group – A Officer) elsewhere will be competent to issue Income Certificate. INCOME CERTIFICATE SHOULD ALSO BE ISSUED IN THE FORM OF AFFIDAVIT.

MODEL PROFORMA FOR INCOME CERTIFICATE(To be given by any Govt. Officer not below the rank of Jt. B.D.O./Executive Officer in case of Municipality/Deputy Commissioner of Corporation in case of Non-salariedParent/Guardian)

I Certify to the best of my knowledge that Shri/Kumari/Smt. _______________son/daughter/wife of Sri _____________________ resident of Village / Town :________________ P.S. ______________________________District : __________________ isknown to me for ___________________ (Years/Months).His/Her father/ Guardian/husband is a permanent resident of Village / town____________________ P.S. ______________________ District ___________________ State_________________________.The total annual family income from all sources of both theparents/Guardian/Husband/Student for the year 2010-2011 is Rs. ________________ ._____________________________(Signature)Place : ______________________________

MODEL FORM OF DECLARATION OF INCOME IN THE FORM OF AFFIDAVIT(To be given by the Parents/Guardians in case of both salaried/non-salaried income)Whereas my son/daughter/dependent Shri/Kumari/Smt. _____________________________a student of __________________________________ college/school has applied for grant ofWest Bengal Govt. Merit-cum-Means Scholarship, I, Shri ____________________________ sonof Shri _______________________________________(Address)________________________________ do hereby declare that my total annual family income fromall sources in the preceeding year ending 31st March, 2011 is Rs.__________ (in wordsalso)______________________________________). I make myself personally responsible for the accuracy of the facts and figures furnished. I further declare that in the event of the particulars given in this declaration being found to be false I shall refund the whole amount of the scholarship paid to the said _______________________________________ (Name of Student) and the Government decision whether the declaration of particulars is false shall be final and binding on me.

• The Reservation Category Certificate should be obtained from BDO's (Block Development Officer) Office after showing him/her the Income Certificate issued by an officer of the State Government in the rank of Block Development Officer or above in the districts / their equivalent counterparts (Group – A Officer) and VERIFIED by DEO(District Education Officer).

• If any student is willing to be considered for the reservation then he/she needs to apply for reservation by purchasing the Reservation Form which is distributed along with the Application Form of the competitive examination then He/she should submit the following documents along with the filled up Application Form :

1. Original Income Certificate issued by an officer of the State Government in the rank of Block Development Officer or above in the districts / their equivalent counterparts (Group – A Officer)

7. Attested Xerox copies of Employer’s Identity Cards of his/her Family Members

8. Attested Xerox copies of Income Tax his/her Family Members

9. Details of Bank Account Should be provided and Attested Xerox Copies of all documents .

10. Attested Xerox copy of Income Certificate

11. Attested Xerox copy of Reservation Category Certificate

12. Attested Xerox copy of INCOME CERTIFICATE ISSUED IN THE FORM OF AFFIDAVIT.

• INSTRUCTION TO THE INSTITUTES :

1. The INSTITUTES must create a dedicated website meant only for REGISTRATION FOR Annual Family Income Based Reservation (AFIBR).2. After DEO(District Education Officer) has uploaded all the required documents the institute should generate a UNIQUE REGISTRATION CODE for the candidate after Registration is completed. 3. The Institute should provide separate Reservation form for these candidates along with the Application Form.4. The Institute must verify the validity of all the documents it receives from the candidate

• INSTRUCTION TO DEO(DISTRICT EDUCATION OFFICER :1. All documents should be attested by DEO(District Education Officer) and DEO should scan the Documents and upload all above mentioned the documents to the institute’s website for REGISTRATION FOR Annual Family Income Based Reservation (AFIBR) 2. After mailing all the documents DEO should register the name of the candidate in the institute’s website meant only for REGISTRATION FOR Annual Family Income Based Reservation (AFIBR) .3. DEO (District Education Officer) now should download and print out the REGISTRATION Form which will contain the candidate’s UNIQUE REGISTRATION CODE and hand over the Downloaded REGISTRATION FORM to the candidate • INSTRUCTION TO THE CANDIDATE 1. The candidate must collect the Reservation Form along with the Application Form and fill it up2. The candidate now should attach all the above mentioned 11 documents with the Reservation Form and Application Form3. The candidate should also attach the Downloaded REGISTRATION FORM along with the above mentioned 12 documents, Reservation Form and Application Form and then submit.

Current reservation: 15% quota for SC, 7.5% for ST and 27% quota for OBCs. A total of 49.5% seats are reserved.

Under "Annual Family Income based reservation" Total seat reserved is 24% which is less than half of the current reservation

In Present situation ,The country has 22 crore student population, of which only 1.4 crore goes to colleges.

If all the above proposals is formulated in a bill by our Education Minister and passed in Parliament it will not only ensure quality in education but also more and more students will be pursuing higher education. It will also help in increasing the country's literacy rate.15. It appears to me that there is no need to teach anyone for more than 3 hours a day till the secondary school. Therefore, the available education infrastructure can be used more effectively through the shift system. Three normal shifts can be run between 07:00-10:00, 11:00-14:00 and 15:00-18:00 hours. An hour gap in between for the children to leave the school and the next set to walk in. In the late nights - from 19:00-22:00, the facility can be used to provide education to old and unlettered. Facilities such as the building, furniture, library, computer centre, laboratories and play fields can be used very efficiently in this manner.16. Further, individual teachers wanting to run their own curriculum can be entertained to use the nearby school facilities including the building, furniture, library, computer centre and laboratories. Like the 'Gurukula' method, a single teacher can lead a group of about 20 children from 1st to 12th standard. The students can write their 10th and 12th standard examination under the National Institute of Open Schooling. Nothing stops those who graduate through this system from joining the available colleges. Through the 'education credit', each student can pay his teacher. This helps the teacher earn a reasonable income and the student is also guaranteed quality infrastructure.17. College education through correspondence system should be increased .In each town, "Tutorial" colleges called in can be set up by individuals who enroll their students in a correspondence course run by authorized universities. [This is applicable only to non-professional courses.] The day-to-day training is provided by these Tutorial colleges. The timings can be flexible, allowing for the students to also find a part-time work during the day.18. Alternate education must be promoted from primary level.19. There should be a School Teacher Eligibility Test(STET)in place for SCHOOL teachers to assess the quality of teachers which would take place every year. All teachers need to clear the STET in order to be eligible to teach in schools in India. It is mandatory for every teacher to sit for School Teacher Eligibility Test(STET) every year in order to continue teaching in India .Teachers who don't appear/fail to clear should not be allowed to continue his/her teaching unless and until he/she clears School Teacher Eligibility Test(STET) .Once a teacher fails to clear School Teacher Eligibility Test(STET) or does not appear for it will be banned to teach anywhere in India for 2 years as well as won’t be allowed to appear for STET .The Teachers need to purchase the Application forms forms for School Teacher Eligibility Test(STET) at Rs 1000 (Rs 100 for rural school teachers).

All teachers who cleared/failed to clear/didn’t appear for STET have to teach at max 25 poor students free of cost who have registered under the National Institute of Open Schooling. The students as well as the teachers will be assessed continuously through Saatya System which will assess the progress of students after every month.

If at least 75% of his/her students performs satisfactorily throughout the year, the teacher doesn’t need to appear for School Teacher Eligibility Test(STET) that year and he/she shall be granted permission to teach in any school anywhere in the country for the next year and the process goes on like this but if more than 25% of his/her students fails to perform satisfactorily then he/she has to appear for School Teacher Eligibility Test(STET) next year and if this continues for more than 2 years then he/she will be banned for 3 years

The teachers who fail to clear STET and was banned for 2 years can qualify to sit for STET next year if more than 95% of his/her students performs satisfactorily throughout the year otherwise would have to wait till the ban is removed .

Instruction to DEO (District Education Officer) and TeachersThe DEO (District Education Officer) will set up new buildings with Facilities such as furniture, library, computer centre, laboratories and play fields etc. But till the new buildings are built the teachers must be allowed to access existing Facilities such as the building, furniture, library, and computer centre, laboratories and play fields on Saturdays and Sundays. The teachers must teach the poor students in their own houses.

Saatya System for Education

Before the Saatya System for Education is implemented students must be given adequate Computer Training so that he/she can give the exam online.

Questions, Exams and Rewards 1. The system will have a list of thousands of questions for each of the subjects from 1 to 12 standards. Questions will be multiple choices as well as subjective. The list will be published and will be in public domain. 2. Depending on the availability of resources, the District Education Officer will setup 1-4 exams per month for each student 3. Each exam will have 30-120 questions randomly chosen from the list for that quarter. Duration would be 1-3 minutes per question. Each exam will have 500-1000-more students 4. There would be monthly cash rewards for students/teachers based on the performance in the exams. These cash rewards will be the ONLY funding that banned teachers and students will get from the state. There will no salary for the teacher who cleared STET(School Teacher Eligibility Test). 5. The rewards can be as follows: Say Rs. 10 for each student and his teacher who gets (Average - 10%) and Rs. 20 each student and his teacher who gets more marks than (Average + 10%). Also, each parent gets additional 25% of what the student gets. In addition, for students after class V, additional 25% of what the student got goes to his teachers of past 2 years. The exact amount of the reward will depend on the money allocated to DEO that year.

Administration of Exams 6. The testing centers would be operated by District Education Officer. 7. The DEO will arrange for the buildings, desks, computer terminals, servers, printing reports, and allocating rewards etc. for the testing centers using the taxes he collects. DEO would appoint clerks, supervisor, assistants etc. to run test center. The citizens may expel an employee using Jury Trial. 8. DEO, or his clerks, using random choice, will instruct a student to go to a testing center near his school/home. For each month, the testing center can be different. Each student will get a different desk in test. This reduces the chances of cheating. 9. The server computer, upon the instruction of the supervisor, will randomly choose 60 questions from a list of 1000s public domain questions. 10. Each student will get the same 30-60 questions in different random order. Thus two students sitting next to each other will be getting questions in a different order just like competitive exams. The students giving the test offline are required to answer the questions in the machine – readable Optical Response Sheets. The DEO is asked to print out each copy from different sets and Xerox “N” no of copies of each set,

Where N = [(NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN THE HALL OPTING FOR ONLINE TEST) DIVIDED BY (TOTAL NUMBER OF SETS)] Those students willing to give online test will be allowed to give their test online.

11. The DEO will pay the rewards for all the tests of that month before 10th of next month. 12. Testing cost will be below Rs 5 per test, not counting the land cost.

Dispensing Rewards for Exams 13. If over 95% students answered a question or if less than 5% students answered a question, the DEO will not count that question at all. 14. The DEO will decide number of tests to be conducted for each subject for a given class. For example, lets say that DEO decides that every month, there will be 2 Maths test, 1 Physics tests, 1 Chemistry tests, 1 Biology test, 2 Law tests etc. 15. The software will issue the points right after the exam.

Selection of teacher in Saatya System 16. In the system I described, other than the teachers who cleared/failed to clear/did not appear for STET (School Teacher Eligibility Test) any person can register himself as a teacher. 17. The parent of the child will decide which teacher’s class his child will attend. The parents can change the teacher any month.

I would like to make the following comments on your proposed draft for improving education-1)NCAAS(NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDIATION COUNCIL FOR SCHOOLS) ,"National Board for Secondary Education in India (NBSEI)",director of `Education Deposit Fund` and District Education Officer should be recallable. Draft will be similar to Right to recall-RBI governor (see chapter 9 of www.righttorecall.info/301.pdf)

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Clause 4-"Rural schools who fall under poor and unsatisfactory category will be dealt leniently."

Rural schools , if to be dealt leniently, can be given five warnings with gap of six months between warnings.

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"Clause 7-.Maximum fees to be charged by a private educational institute should be fixed by the government. Impediments in the way of setting up for-profit private schools/colleges should be removed. Today, only a charitable trust can set up educational institutions. Therefore, honest entrepreneurs interested in making profits will not get involved in spending their time and setting up quality educational institutions. The result is that only criminals who plunder money illegally in the name of "charitable trusts" get involved in providing education, and make money through capitation fees. To stop this, the government should allow for for-profit companies to set up educational institutions. This move will result in considerable capital flowing into the education sector. These colleges so set up will still come under the purview of the education ministries around the country, and so the government can still regulate the fees charges for providing the education. This is akin to regulating the distribution of power in Mumbai and Delhi. The government regulator only decides the upper limit cost per unit of power. Similar regulation now exists in telecom. Therefore it is perfectly possible to bring about the same in education as well. Any hike in fees should at first be reported to government and if the government permits then only fees could be hiked. Violation of this law will lead to severe punishment like Fines & DE-affiliation."

To ensure proper punishment Jury system is required, because the judge system will let nexuses be formed and allow the defaulters to roam freely.Also, MRCM is also required for reducing poverty and thus even the poor students can attend schools then.

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"Clause 13 f- f. Repayment of Special educational loan -Level 1- Course period + 3 years or 6 months after getting job, whichever is earlier.Level 2 - Course period + 5 years or 3 years after getting job, whichever is earlier."

Please revise the time period for repayment as it does not seem correct

5)Clause 14-Annual Family Income Based Reservation-

Whoever declares his/her income to the income tax officer does so on a affidavit and It is impossible for the income tax officer to IMMEDIATELY or even after years to cross-verify whether the information given is correct or not.It may happen that a middle-class person who did not get any seat in his/her cateogary files income according to lower cateogary and the parent`s student finishes the studies and still the fact that false information was given is not found out.

Would instead prefer merit based reward system, which we call it `Satyaa system` whereby any teacher can register himself/herself as a private teacher and monthly exams will be taken and the students and teachers performing well will be rewarded and this system can start in private schools initially.and later extend to government schools.Please see details in chapter 30 of http://www.righttorecall.info/301.pdf

For government schools, initially we can have STET system(clause 6)for teachers to improve teaching efficiency. Later, Satyaa system will take over this.6)Clause 6-"6. All students whose annual family income is less than INR 25,000 should be allowed to purchase Application forms for competitive exams & College/School Admission form free of cost and those students whose annual family income is more than INR 25,000 but less than INR 60,000 should be allowed to purchase Application forms for competitive exams & College/School Admission form at half its original price . This will ensure that all poor and needy meritorious students can have access to education."

2. All schools like colleges should be assessed continuously by NAACS (NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDIATION COUNCIL FOR SCHOOLS) like dedicated institutions.

3. All boards (both all India and state) should come under a single national level board arbitrarily named "National Board for Secondary Education in India (NBSEI)" which is just like Universities lending their affiliation to various colleges. There should only be a single board in the country which will control all other boards that earlier existed. All boards currently present in India should ask for affiliation from NBSEI (National Board for Secondary Education in India) within 3 months of its creation by registering their board under NBSEI (National Board for Secondary Education in India) .This should be done in order to ensure equity to students from different boards.This board National Board for Secondary Education in India (NBSEI) will set same question papers for all students in the country and will also decide the marking scheme so that all students are marked in the same way. This board will decide the common syllabi for all subjects to be taught at schools.

3.1 A separate “Education Deposit Fund” should be made where all the money the government gets from schools & other sources for education will be stored.

3.2 REGISTRATION of all schools and boards spread all over India

REGISTRATION FEE has to be paid by schools and boards and it can charge students for this fee.

All boards currently present in India should ask for affiliation from NBSEI (National Board for Secondary Education in India) within 3 months of its creation by registering their board under NBSEI (National Board for Secondary Education in India) by paying Rs 500 per school(Rs 100 for government boards) per year affiliated under them. Now all schools in India are automatically affiliated by NBSEI (National Board for Secondary Education in India) .So every year the private urban and town schools needs to pay Rs 500 per student per year for continual affiliation from NBSEI (National Board for Secondary Education in India) while rural schools only needs to pay Rs 10 per student per annum.The government run schools needs to pay Rs 100 per student per annum.The rates have been fixed like these because affordable private schools in India charge Annual tuition fees ranging between Rs 36,000 to Rs 60,000,while a Government schools charges Annual tuition fees ranges between Rs 12,000 to Rs. 25,000.

There are more than 10,000 CBSE schools in India , 1700 ICSE Schools in India, 20,000(approx) state government schools in India.So the cost of affiliation per year for CBSE = Rs 100* 10,000 = Rs 10lakhs.The cost of affiliation per year for ICSE = Rs 500* 1700 = Rs 8.5 lakhs The cost of affiliation per year for state boards = Rs 100* 20,000 = Rs 20 lakhs.+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total cost that boards have to bear for affiliation = Rs 38.5 lakhs per year.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

There are only 30 million(3crore) secondary school children in India out of which only 6.2 million(62 lakh) students study in private schools and the 0.8 million (8lakhs) study in rural schools and the rest 23 million (2.3 crore)students study in government schools

4. Cost of assessing per school will be only Rs.50 per student per year (Rs 20 per student per year for schools in rural areas). Assessment of schools should be made mandatory and schools have to bear the cost of assessment.Schools can only charge Rs.25 from urban school children and Rs 5 from rural school children for assessment of schools. Cost of assessing urban schools = Rs 50* 2, 92, 00,000 =Rs 146 crores per yearCost of assessing rural schools = Rs 20* 8, 00,000 =Rs 1.6 crores per year+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Total amount generated from schools for assessment = Rs 147.6 crores per year -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

School assessed should be graded in the following format:

FIVE STAR SCHOOL – THE BEST SCHOOL (Both Academically and Non-academically)FOUR STAR SCHOOL –THE BEST SCHOOL (Academically)THREE STAR SCHOOL - THE BEST SCHOOL ( Co-Academic Activities)TWO STAR SCHOOL – THE BEST SCHOOL (Impact on Society)ONE STAR SCHOOL – THE BEST SCHOOL (Faculty wise)A+ - EXCELLENTA - VERY GOODB+ - GOODC+ - SATISFACTORYC - POORD - UNSATISFACTORYNow what should be done once the grading is done is that the those schools falling under category “C” and ” D “ should be served a maximum of 2 warnings per year and if even after the warnings schools fail to improve they should face severe punishment like DE-affiliation along with fine of Rs 10000 per student(Rs 100 per student in rural areas) . Star schools and schools with grades A+ would be rewarded with cash. This will ensure schools provide quality education. Rural schools who fall under poor and unsatisfactory category will be dealt leniently. Rural schools will be given five warnings with gap of six months between warnings.

5. Education Tax should be included along with Income Tax whose interest rates should be :Less than Taxable Income = 0.5% per annumRs 1,80,001 – Rs 5,00,000 = 1% per annumRs 5,00,001 – Rs 8,00,000 = 2% per annumRs 8,00,001 upwards = 3% per annumThe amount of money generated from Education Tax wiil go to “Education Deposit Fund”.Education Tax to be deducted along with Income Tax.Education Tax fixed at rate 1% will be included within VAT(Value Added Tax). VAT is the indirect tax on the consumption of the goods, paid by its original producers upon the change in goods or upon the transfer of the goods to its ultimate consumers. It is based on the value of the goods, added by the transferor. It is the tax in relation to the difference of the value added by the transferor and not just a profit

6. All students whose annual family income is less than INR 45,000 should be allowed to purchase Application forms for competitive exams & Colleges/Government Schools Admission form free of cost be. This will ensure that all poor and needy meritorious students can have access to education.

6.1FUNDING:

All applicants who buy the Application Forms need to pay extra Rs.10 which should be included in the Application Fee for the funding of forms for poor and needy meritorious students. Banks distributing forms cannot charge poor and needy meritorious students for the Application Forms.

Applicants who fail to clear the eligibility criteria for the competitive exams shall be allowed to sit for the competitive exam after paying a fine of Rs 1000 along with fees of both test(screening and main). 50% of this money will go to the “Education Deposit Fund” and the rest 50% goes to the institute. These applicants will have to appear for screening test before sitting for the main examination.Funds for Application forms of poor and needy meritorious to be provided from “Education Deposit Fund”.

7.Maximum fees to be charged by a private educational institute should be fixed by the government. Impediments in the way of setting up for-profit private schools/colleges should be removed. Today, only a charitable trust can set up educational institutions. Therefore, honest entrepreneurs interested in making profits will not get involved in spending their time and setting up quality educational institutions. The result is that only criminals who plunder money illegally in the name of "charitable trusts" get involved in providing education, and make money through capitation fees. To stop this, the government should allow for for-profit companies to set up educational institutions. This move will result in considerable capital flowing into the education sector. These colleges so set up will still come under the purview of the education ministries around the country, and so the government can still regulate the fees charged for providing the education. This is akin to regulating the distribution of power in Mumbai and Delhi. The government regulator only decides the upper limit cost per unit of power. Similar regulation now exists in telecom. Therefore it is perfectly possible to bring about the same in education as well. Any hike in fees should at first be reported to government and if the government permits then only fees could be hiked. Violation of this law will lead to severe punishment like Fines & DE-affiliation.

8. Student: Teacher ratio law :-1:20 – EXCELLENT1:25 - VERY GOOD 1:30 - GOOD1:35 - SATISFACTORY1:40 - POOR1:45 - UNSATISFACTORYNow what should be done is that the those schools falling under categories "POOR OR UNSATISFACTORY" should be served a maximum of 2 warnings per academic year and if even after the warnings schools fail to improve they should be DE-affiliated and schools with “EXCELLENT” Student :Teacher ratio should be rewarded. This will ensure quality in education.

9. 25% Reservation of seats for poor in all private schools should be made mandatory and violation of the law will lead to severe punishment.

10. Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education should be implemented properly . It ensures every child have Right to Free and Compulsory Education till age 14,but what happens after that.

11. Government should provide full scholarships to the needy and the poor meritorious students till the age of 18.The child who doesn't get the scholarship can opt for special educational loan(Level 1) which he/she needs to re-pay back 3 years after getting job .Government should also set up more government schools for the needy and the poor ones.

12.After a needy and poor child has finished his 12th and gets admission to any college or institute only on basis of merit , government should provide him/her with special educational loan(Level 2) which he/she needs to re-pay back 5 years after getting job.

13.The government must introduce Special educational loan in all banks--

a. What is Special educational loan (Level 1 &2)?Ans : Level 1 loan is only for poor and needy Students perusing Education in schools and Level 2 is only for poor and needy Students perusing Higher Education.(after class 12)

b. How much Loan he/she can get under Special educational loan (Level 1)?Ans: Students can borrow up to Rs 4 lakh without providing any security.

c. What is the Interest rate charged for Special educational loan (Level 1)?Ans: NIL

d. How much Loan he/she can get under Special educational loan (Level 2)?

Ans: For Studies in India , Students can borrow up to Rs 10 lakh and for Studies in Abroad, Students can borrow up to Rs 20 lakh.

e. What is the Interest rate charged for Special educational loan (Level 2)?Ans: - 2% per annum in India and 8% per annum outside India.

f. Repayment of Special educational loan - Level 1- Course period + 6 years or 3 years after getting job, whichever is earlier.Level 2 - Course period + 6 years or 3 years after getting job, whichever is earlier.

14. Caste based reservation should be replaced by Annual Family Income based reservation.

Annual Family Income Based Reservation is as follows:

Category 1: less than INR 30, OOO per annum - 10% seat reservation.

Category 2: less than INR 60, OOO per annum but more than INR 30,OOO per annum --------------------------------- 7% seat reservation.

Category 3: less than INR 1, 00, OOO per annum but more than INR 60,OOO per annum----------------------------4% seat reservation.

Category 4: less than INR 2,50,OOO per annum but more than INR 1,00,OOO per annum-----------------------------3% seat reservation.

If any seats from any category remains unfilled it will be added to the next category and even if seats remain unfilled it will be added to the General category.PROCEDURE FOR REGISTRATION FOR Annual Family Income Based Reservation (AFIBR)• For the purpose of determining the annual Income from all sources of Parents / Guardians of students an officer of the State Government in the rank of Block Development Officer or above in the districts / their equivalent counterparts (Group – A Officer) elsewhere will be competent to issue Income Certificate. INCOME CERTIFICATE SHOULD ALSO BE ISSUED IN THE FORM OF AFFIDAVIT.

MODEL PROFORMA FOR INCOME CERTIFICATE(To be given by any Govt. Officer not below the rank of Jt. B.D.O./Executive Officer in case of Municipality/Deputy Commissioner of Corporation in case of Non-salariedParent/Guardian)

I Certify to the best of my knowledge that Shri/Kumari/Smt. _______________son/daughter/wife of Sri _____________________ resident of Village / Town :________________ P.S. ______________________________District : __________________ isknown to me for ___________________ (Years/Months).His/Her father/ Guardian/husband is a permanent resident of Village / town____________________ P.S. ______________________ District ___________________ State_________________________.The total annual family income from all sources of both theparents/Guardian/Husband/Student for the year 2010-2011 is Rs. ________________ ._____________________________(Signature)Place : ______________________________

MODEL FORM OF DECLARATION OF INCOME IN THE FORM OF AFFIDAVIT(To be given by the Parents/Guardians in case of both salaried/non-salaried income)Whereas my son/daughter/dependent Shri/Kumari/Smt. _____________________________a student of __________________________________ college/school has applied for grant ofWest Bengal Govt. Merit-cum-Means Scholarship, I, Shri ____________________________ sonof Shri _______________________________________(Address)________________________________ do hereby declare that my total annual family income fromall sources in the preceeding year ending 31st March, 2011 is Rs.__________ (in wordsalso)______________________________________). I make myself personally responsible for the accuracy of the facts and figures furnished. I further declare that in the event of the particulars given in this declaration being found to be false I shall refund the whole amount of the scholarship paid to the said _______________________________________ (Name of Student) and the Government decision whether the declaration of particulars is false shall be final and binding on me.

• The Reservation Category Certificate should be obtained from BDO's (Block Development Officer) Office after showing him/her the Income Certificate issued by an officer of the State Government in the rank of Block Development Officer or above in the districts / their equivalent counterparts (Group – A Officer) and VERIFIED by DEO(District Education Officer).

• If any student is willing to be considered for the reservation then he/she needs to apply for reservation by purchasing the Reservation Form which is distributed along with the Application Form of the competitive examination then He/she should submit the following documents along with the filled up Application Form :

1. Original Income Certificate issued by an officer of the State Government in the rank of Block Development Officer or above in the districts / their equivalent counterparts (Group – A Officer)

7. Attested Xerox copies of Employer’s Identity Cards of his/her Family Members

8. Attested Xerox copies of Income Tax his/her Family Members

9. Details of Bank Account Should be provided and Attested Xerox Copies of all documents .

10. Attested Xerox copy of Income Certificate

11. Attested Xerox copy of Reservation Category Certificate

12. Attested Xerox copy of INCOME CERTIFICATE ISSUED IN THE FORM OF AFFIDAVIT.

• INSTRUCTION TO THE INSTITUTES :

1. The INSTITUTES must create a dedicated website meant only for REGISTRATION FOR Annual Family Income Based Reservation (AFIBR).2. After DEO(District Education Officer) has uploaded all the required documents the institute should generate a UNIQUE REGISTRATION CODE for the candidate after Registration is completed. 3. The Institute should provide separate Reservation form for these candidates along with the Application Form.4. The Institute must verify the validity of all the documents it receives from the candidate

• INSTRUCTION TO DEO(DISTRICT EDUCATION OFFICER :1. All documents should be attested by DEO(District Education Officer) and DEO should scan the Documents and upload all above mentioned the documents to the institute’s website for REGISTRATION FOR Annual Family Income Based Reservation (AFIBR) 2. After mailing all the documents DEO should register the name of the candidate in the institute’s website meant only for REGISTRATION FOR Annual Family Income Based Reservation (AFIBR) .3. DEO (District Education Officer) now should download and print out the REGISTRATION Form which will contain the candidate’s UNIQUE REGISTRATION CODE and hand over the Downloaded REGISTRATION FORM to the candidate • INSTRUCTION TO THE CANDIDATE 1. The candidate must collect the Reservation Form along with the Application Form and fill it up2. The candidate now should attach all the above mentioned 11 documents with the Reservation Form and Application Form3. The candidate should also attach the Downloaded REGISTRATION FORM along with the above mentioned 12 documents, Reservation Form and Application Form and then submit.

Current reservation: 15% quota for SC, 7.5% for ST and 27% quota for OBCs. A total of 49.5% seats are reserved.

Under "Annual Family Income based reservation" Total seat reserved is 24% which is less than half of the current reservation

In Present situation ,The country has 22 crore student population, of which only 1.4 crore goes to colleges.

If all the above proposals is formulated in a bill by our Education Minister and passed in Parliament it will not only ensure quality in education but also more and more students will be pursuing higher education. It will also help in increasing the country's literacy rate.15. It appears to me that there is no need to teach anyone for more than 3 hours a day till the secondary school. Therefore, the available education infrastructure can be used more effectively through the shift system. Three normal shifts can be run between 07:00-10:00, 11:00-14:00 and 15:00-18:00 hours. An hour gap in between for the children to leave the school and the next set to walk in. In the late nights - from 19:00-22:00, the facility can be used to provide education to old and unlettered. Facilities such as the building, furniture, library, computer centre, laboratories and play fields can be used very efficiently in this manner.16. Further, individual teachers wanting to run their own curriculum can be entertained to use the nearby school facilities including the building, furniture, library, computer centre and laboratories. Like the 'Gurukula' method, a single teacher can lead a group of about 20 children from 1st to 12th standard. The students can write their 10th and 12th standard examination under the National Institute of Open Schooling. Nothing stops those who graduate through this system from joining the available colleges. Through the 'education credit', each student can pay his teacher. This helps the teacher earn a reasonable income and the student is also guaranteed quality infrastructure.17. College education through correspondence system should be increased .In each town, "Tutorial" colleges called in can be set up by individuals who enroll their students in a correspondence course run by authorized universities. [This is applicable only to non-professional courses.] The day-to-day training is provided by these Tutorial colleges. The timings can be flexible, allowing for the students to also find a part-time work during the day.18. Alternate education must be promoted from primary level.19. There should be a School Teacher Eligibility Test(STET)in place for SCHOOL teachers to assess the quality of teachers which would take place every year. All teachers need to clear the STET in order to be eligible to teach in schools in India. It is mandatory for every teacher to sit for School Teacher Eligibility Test(STET) every year in order to continue teaching in India .Teachers who don't appear/fail to clear should not be allowed to continue his/her teaching unless and until he/she clears School Teacher Eligibility Test(STET) .Once a teacher fails to clear School Teacher Eligibility Test(STET) or does not appear for it will be banned to teach anywhere in India for 2 years as well as won’t be allowed to appear for STET .The Teachers need to purchase the Application forms forms for School Teacher Eligibility Test(STET) at Rs 1000 (Rs 100 for rural school teachers).

All teachers who cleared/failed to clear/didn’t appear for STET have to teach at max 25 poor students free of cost who have registered under the National Institute of Open Schooling. The students as well as the teachers will be assessed continuously through Saatya System which will assess the progress of students after every month.

If at least 75% of his/her students performs satisfactorily throughout the year, the teacher doesn’t need to appear for School Teacher Eligibility Test(STET) that year and he/she shall be granted permission to teach in any school anywhere in the country for the next year and the process goes on like this but if more than 25% of his/her students fails to perform satisfactorily then he/she has to appear for School Teacher Eligibility Test(STET) next year and if this continues for more than 2 years then he/she will be banned for 3 years

The teachers who fail to clear STET and was banned for 2 years can qualify to sit for STET next year if more than 95% of his/her students performs satisfactorily throughout the year otherwise would have to wait till the ban is removed .

Instruction to DEO (District Education Officer) and TeachersThe DEO (District Education Officer) will set up new buildings with Facilities such as furniture, library, computer centre, laboratories and play fields etc. But till the new buildings are built the teachers must be allowed to access existing Facilities such as the building, furniture, library, and computer centre, laboratories and play fields on Saturdays and Sundays. The teachers must teach the poor students in their own houses.

Saatya System for Education

Before the Saatya System for Education is implemented students must be given adequate Computer Training so that he/she can give the exam online.

Questions, Exams and Rewards 1. The system will have a list of thousands of questions for each of the subjects from 1 to 12 standards. Questions will be multiple choices as well as subjective. The list will be published and will be in public domain. 2. Depending on the availability of resources, the District Education Officer will setup 1-4 exams per month for each student 3. Each exam will have 30-120 questions randomly chosen from the list for that quarter. Duration would be 1-3 minutes per question. Each exam will have 500-1000-more students 4. There would be monthly cash rewards for students/teachers based on the performance in the exams. These cash rewards will be the ONLY funding that banned teachers and students will get from the state. There will no salary for the teacher who cleared STET(School Teacher Eligibility Test). 5. The rewards can be as follows: Say Rs. 10 for each student and his teacher who gets (Average - 10%) and Rs. 20 each student and his teacher who gets more marks than (Average + 10%). Also, each parent gets additional 25% of what the student gets. In addition, for students after class V, additional 25% of what the student got goes to his teachers of past 2 years. The exact amount of the reward will depend on the money allocated to DEO that year.

Administration of Exams 6. The testing centers would be operated by District Education Officer. 7. The DEO will arrange for the buildings, desks, computer terminals, servers, printing reports, and allocating rewards etc. for the testing centers using the taxes he collects. DEO would appoint clerks, supervisor, assistants etc. to run test center. The citizens may expel an employee using Jury Trial. 8. DEO, or his clerks, using random choice, will instruct a student to go to a testing center near his school/home. For each month, the testing center can be different. Each student will get a different desk in test. This reduces the chances of cheating. 9. The server computer, upon the instruction of the supervisor, will randomly choose 60 questions from a list of 1000s public domain questions. 10. Each student will get the same 30-60 questions in different random order. Thus two students sitting next to each other will be getting questions in a different order just like competitive exams. The students giving the test offline are required to answer the questions in the machine – readable Optical Response Sheets. The DEO is asked to print out each copy from different sets and Xerox “N” no of copies of each set,

Where N = [(NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN THE HALL OPTING FOR ONLINE TEST) DIVIDED BY (TOTAL NUMBER OF SETS)] Those students willing to give online test will be allowed to give their test online.

11. The DEO will pay the rewards for all the tests of that month before 10th of next month. 12. Testing cost will be below Rs 5 per test, not counting the land cost.

Dispensing Rewards for Exams 13. If over 95% students answered a question or if less than 5% students answered a question, the DEO will not count that question at all. 14. The DEO will decide number of tests to be conducted for each subject for a given class. For example, lets say that DEO decides that every month, there will be 2 Maths test, 1 Physics tests, 1 Chemistry tests, 1 Biology test, 2 Law tests etc. 15. The software will issue the points right after the exam.

Selection of teacher in Saatya System 16. In the system I described, other than the teachers who cleared/failed to clear/did not appear for STET (School Teacher Eligibility Test) any person can register himself as a teacher. 17. The parent of the child will decide which teacher’s class his child will attend. The parents can change the teacher any month.

Computer along with Language subjects such as English,2 Modern Indian Languages, should be made compulsory till class XII. Basic Science ( physics,chemistry,maths,biology) should be made compulsory till class X.

Student's Choice Subject should also be introduced.Reaction of students

Introduce major-minor concept in secondary school education and let students choose their own subjects .But before introducing major-minor concept ,basic education must be imparted to the students.

GROUP III BEST OF TWO) ---------------------------------------------- 200 MARKS(Optional) (AT LEAST 2 SUBJECTS HAS TO BE CHOSEN)1. Minor Subjects 2. Additional Subject3. Environmental Education 4. Alternative EducationCREDIT SUBJECTS: Co-Curricular, SportsNet percentage = (Group I percentage + Twice Group II percentage + Best of 2 from Group III)/10Secondary examination would be a (1+1+1) year course and a student would be allowed to change his/her stream after the end of each part of the 3year course .A minimum of pass marks/grade along with minimum credit in credit subjects to be obtained for PCA to be awarded.

Key Challenges for the Indian Education System25% of the Indian population is illiterate.Only 7% of the population that goes to school managed to graduate and only 15% of those who enrol manage to make it to high school and achieve a place in the higher education system.A few reasons why education in India is given less importance in some areas are as follows:• 80% of schools are managed by the government. Private schools are expensive and out of reach of the poor.• More hands to earn remains the mentality amongst many families and therefore little kids are set out to fend for the family over going to school to garner an adequate education, in the most literal sense of the word.• Infrastructure facilities at schools across rural areas and in slums dispense very poor quality of education.• The teachers are not well qualified and therefore not well paid and therefore are not willing to work hard enough. This has been a classical Catch-22 problem that the government has been trying hard to fight against.

Why is India still a developing country and what is stopping it from being a developed country? This particular question strikes me every time when I read something about India’s education system. I see India’s education system as a stumbling block towards its objectives of achieving inclusive growth.Let me inform you about certain startling facts. India is going to experience a paradox of nearly 90 million people joining the workforce but most of them will lack requiste skills and the mindset for productive employment according to a report in DNA. India has about 550 million people under the age of 25 years out of which only 11% are enrolled in tertiary institutions compared to the world average of 23%.I wouldn’t be laying too much emphasis on the drawbacks of India’s public education system because it has been an issue well debated over in the past and the main flaws have already been pointed out before. I will be focussing on how the education system’s failure is leading to another social issue of income inequality and hence, suggest certain policies to improve India’s education system and reduce inequality.The really critical aspect of Indian public education system is its low quality. The actual quantity of schooling that children experience and the quality of teaching they receive are extremely insufficient in government schools. A common feature in all government schools is the poor quality of education, with weak infrastructure and inadequate pedagogic attention.What the government is not realising right now is that education which is a source of human capital can create wide income inequalities. It will be surprising to see how income inequalities are created within the same group of educated people.Let me illustrate this with the help of an example:Let us take P be an individual who has had no primary or higher education. His human capital is zero and hence it bears no returns. Let Q be an individual who completed his MBA from S.P Jain college and let R be an individual who completed his MBA from IIM Ahmadabad. The average rate of return for an MBA student is 7.5% (hypothetical). Q gets a rate of return of 5% and R gets a rate of return of 10% due to the difference in the reputation and quality of the management school. Let the income of P, Q and R be 1.In a period of 10 years, P will be having the same income as he does not possess human capital. For the same time period Q will earn an income of (1+0.05)^10=1.63 and R will earn an income of (1+0.10)^10=2.59. Now lets see what happens when the rate of return on human capital doubles. Earnings of P will not change since he does not have any human capital. Now Q is going to earn (1+0.10)^10=1.63 and R is going to earn (1+0.20)^10=6.19. Flabbergasting! As soon as return on human capital increases proportionately income inequality increases. With return on human capital doubling, Q’S income increases by 59% and R’s income increases by 139%.The above example just shows the effect of the quality of human capital n income inequality. So if the government does not improve education system particularly in rural areas the rich will become richer and the poor will get poorer.Hence, it is imperative for the government to correct the blemishes in India’s education system which will also be a step towards reducing income inequality.Certain policy measures need to be taken by the government. The basic thrust of government education spending today must surely be to ensure that all children have access to government schools and to raise the quality of education in those schools. One of the ways in which the problem of poor quality of education can be tackled is through common schooling. This essentially means sharing of resources between private and public schools. Shift system is one of the ways through which common schooling can be achieved. The private school can use the resources during the first half of the day and the government school can use it during the second half. It is important to remember that the quality of education is directly linked to the resources available and it is important for the government to improve resource allocation to bring about qualitative changes in the field of education. Common schooling is one of the ways in which government can use limited resources in an efficient way and thus improve resource allocation.Another reason for poor quality of education is the poor quality of teachers in government schools .Government schools are unable to attract good quality teachers due to inadequate teaching facilities and low salaries. The government currently spends only 3% of its GDP on education which is inadequate and insufficient. To improve the quality of education , the government needs to spend more money from its coffers on education.Most economists feel that the only panacea to the ills of the public schooling system is the voucher scheme. Under the voucher system, parents are allowed to choose a school for their children and they get full or partial reimbursement for the expenses from the government. But however, the voucher system will further aggravate the problem of poor quality of education in government schools. Such a system will shift resources from government schools to private schools. This will worsen the situation of government schools which are already under-funded. Moreover, if the same amount given as vouchers can be used to build infrastructure in schools then the government can realize economies of scale. For example- The centre for civil society is providing vouchers worth Rs 4000 per annum to 308 girls. This means that the total amount of money given as vouchers is Rs 1232000. If the same amount can be used to construct a school and employ high quality teachers who are paid well then a larger section of the society will enjoy the benefit of education. A school can definitely accommodate a minimum of 1000 students.I hope government takes certain appropriate policy measures to improve the education system otherwise inequalities are going to be widespread and India’s basic capabilities will remain stunted. Let us strengthen the case for a stronger education system.

Ans: PROMOTING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY IN DEFENSE BY PAYING DRDO SCIENTIST AND ENGINEERS THE HIGHEST SALARIES AND MAKING IT THE MOST LUCRATIVE JOB .ALSO PROMOTE TIME-BOUND RESEARCH TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEMS OF THE NATION BY PAYING RESEARCHERS HUGE SALARIES AND MAKING IT THE MOST LUCRATIVE JOBS(FOR EG RS 25 LAKHS PER ANUM ) THEREBY ATTRACTING NOT ONLY THE BEST BRAINS OF THE COUNTRY BUT ALSO THE BEST BRAINS FROM AROUND THE WORLD .THE MONEY WOULD COME FROM SAVINGS MADE BY PRIVATIZING SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

HOW TO STOP BRAIN DRAIN?

Ans: 1) SCHOOL VOUCHERS WOULD BE PROVIDED ONLY IF STUDENTS WHO OPT FOR IT, LEGALLY AGREES TO STAY AND WORK IN INDIA FOR ATLEAST 4 YEARS AFTER THEY COMPLETE THEIR GRADUATION/HIGHER EDUCATION/12TH STANDARD .IN CASE OF FAILING TO DO SO ,THEY WOULD BE ASKED TO RE-PAY THE TAXPAYER’ S MONEY ALONG WITH INTEREST, ALLOCATED TO THEM THROUGH SCHOOL VOUCHER

2) STOP ALL GOVT SUBSIDIES to colleges INTEAD PROVIDE CHEAP LONG TERM LOANS (say 15 to 20 yrs) and don’t allow students who has not repaid the loan along with interest to leave the country without furnishing bank-guarantee.

HOW TO REDUCE RESERVATION?

A STEP TO REDUCE RESERVATION:

A step to reduce reservation: the system of “dole vs. reservation”What makes RRG different from all parties is that we support an administrative system, called as economic-choice to reduce demand for reservation in poor SC, ST and OBCs. Following is the summary of the system of second-choice for Dalits, OBCs1. Any member of a sub-caste that belongs to ST, SC or OBC can walk to Tahsildar's office, undergo verification and apply for economic-choice , where ino he shall still retain his SC, ST, OBC statuso he shall receive inflation adjusted Rs 600 per year, till he cancels economic-choiceo he will be eligible for reservation moment he cancels his economic-choiceo the number of reserved seats will decrease by those who opt for economic-choiceo the money shall come from tax on land and nowhere else2. Example : India has 100 cr of population of which 14 cr are SC. So if a college has 1000 seats of then 140 are reserved. Now suppose out of these 14 cr SCs, say 6 cr insist on economic-choice then each shall get payment of Rs 100 a month and reservation for SC will go down by 6% i.e. will become about 8%.Most poor Dalits did not get much benefit from Reservation, and as elite in Dalits increases in size, the opportunities for poor dalits further reduces. The economic-choice creates a system by which the poor left out dalits can also get benefit of the reservation as well. Many of them would opt for economic-choice as (opposed to social-choice that reservation offers). This will reduce reservationTo what extent will economic choice reduce reservation? Population of India is 100 cr and that of SC, ST and OBC is 60 cr. Hypothetically, if entire 60cr of SC, ST and OBC population were to go on economic choice, then the quota would reduce from 50% to 0% and cost will be Rs 1200 * 60 = Rs 72,000cr a year. But that is an extreme scenario. Say out of 60 cr SC/ST/OBC say 450 cr prefer economic choice, then reservation will reduce from 50% to 15/60*50 = 12.5% . Now if say 5% of merit list consists of ST, SC and OBCs, then effective reservation becomes 7.5% only

Economic-Choice System1. Any member of a sub-caste that belongs to ST, SC or OBC can walk to Tahsildar's office, undergo verification and apply for economic-choice , where in he shall still retain his SC, ST, OBC status he shall receive inflation adjusted Rs 600 per year, till he cancels economic-choice till he gets this payment, he cannot apply in reserved quota. he will be eligible for reservation the day he cancels his second-choice number of reserved seats will decrease depending on number of those who have opted-out dole money shall come from tax on land and nowhere else.

Modification of the current reservation system:Reservation ONLY FOR ECONOMICALLY WEAK SC/ST's /OBC's/GENERALWhat do I mean by economically weak SC/ST's and OBC's? Economically weak SC/ST's and OBC's 1. SC/ST's and OBC’s who are BPL card holders. 2. SC/ST's and OBC's whose annual family income (all sources) is less than INR 90,000

Modified Reservation for SC/ST's and OBC's: Annual family income: A. less than INR 30, 000 per annum (Type 1)- 20% reservation B. less than INR 60, 000per annum but more than INR 30,000 per annum (Type 2) - 15% reservation C. less than INR 90, 000 per annum but more than INR 60,000 per annum (Type 3) - 10 % reservation

If any reservation is unfulfilled, then the left over seats gets added to general quota STUDENT LOANS for ECONOMICALLY WEAK (SLEW)ONLY ECONOMICALLY WEAK STUDENTS (whose annual family income is less than INR 90,000) ARE ELIGIBLE FOR SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL LOAN .THESE STUDENTS CAN GET THE LOAN AFTER SIGNING A BOND DECLARING THAT AFTER COMPLETING HIS EDUCATION, HE WOULD SERVE INDIA FOR ATLEAST 8TO 10 YEARS .THEY WOULD BE LOANED FOR 15 YEARS.a. What is Special educational loan (Level 1 &2)?Ans : Level 1 loan is only for poor and needy Students perusing Education in schools and Level 2 is only for poor and needy Students perusing Higher Education.(after class 12)b. How much Loan he/she can get under Special educational loan (Level 1)?Ans: Students can borrow upto Rs 4 lakh without providing any security.

c. What is the Interest rate charged for Special educational loan (Level 1)?Ans: NIL

d. How much Loan he/she can get under Special educational loan (Level 2)?

Ans: For Studies in India , Students can borrow up to Rs 10 lakh and for Studies in Abroad, Students can borrow up to Rs 20 lakh.

e. What is the Interest rate charged for Special educational loan (Level 2)?Ans - 1% per annum in India and 4% per annum outside India.

f. Repayment of Special educational loan - Level 1- Course period + 3 years or 6 months after getting job, whichever is earlier.Level 2 - Course period + 5 years or 3 years after getting job, whichever is earlier.

School educationSCHOOL VOUCHERS WOULD MAKE IT MANDATORY THAT EVERY CITIZENS WHO OPT FOR IT, HAS TO STAY AND WORK IN INDIA FOR ATLEAST 4 YEARS AFTER THEY COMPLETE THEIR GRADUATION/HIGHER EDUCATION/12TH STANDARD .IN CASE OF FAILING TO DO SO ,THEY WOULD BE ASKED TO RE-PAY THE MONEY ALONG WITH INTEREST, ALLOCATED TO THEM THROUGH VOUCHER .Twelve years of education is now a norm in most free nations. My government will guarantee support for the education of all permanent residents of the country who want to study up to standard 12 or age 18(whichever comes first), noting that this does not amount to compulsory education. This would also include support for equivalent vocational training. Today, about 16 per cent of India’s children in the age group 6–14 do not go to school at all, amounting to tens of millions of children. Most also drop out of school well before completing high school. Getting every Indian to complete standard 12 may therefore sound like a pipe dream. But it will be achieved quickly with the policies outlined below. My government’s solution will be to deliver high quality education to all children of India at the cheapest possible price. Since schooling is largely a state subject, therefore this policy will apply initially to Central Government schools only. However, states will be given incentives to move to this model.My government will fund parents for their children’s education, and not manage schools or appoint teachers. If we apply the criteria for the review of government activities to the school sector, we find that the government does not need to build, own and maintain schools, or deal with lakhs of school teachers directly, in order to educate every child. The current approach is too centralized and bureaucratic. It leads to mediocrity since local information can never be factored into the equation. I have also inspected non-existent primary school buildings which were shown as having been completed on paper. Our current socialist approaches are completely inappropriate, both theoretically and empirically. Governments are also very soft on their own failures. A Director of Schools will generally demand stringent standards from private schools that want to be licensed but will be pathetically indifferent to the shoddiest quality of education provided by government schools themselves. However, if all education services are provided by the private sector (i.e. by private citizens themselves), a government regulator can become an effective judge of school quality. We also know that parents generally prefer to send their children to private schools because the standards of accountability of these schools are much higher. Parents get full value for the extra money they invest in their children’s education.

Privatizing all government schools will therefore ensure that all schools in India are fully accountable. Further, under the current system, the lands and buildings of government schools are not being used in the most efficient manner. Privatization will ensure much better resource utilization. By giving ownership – in most cases through educational consortiums – to teachers, the commitment of private school owners towards the maintenance of buildings and school infrastructure will also be enormously strengthened. As a rule, whatever exists without a specific owner is destined to be neglected. Finally, we know that managing a school is a hands-on exercise like managing a business. Governments are very inefficient in doing hands-on things and running businesses. The average government bureaucrat or teacher has good intentions but no incentive to deliver world-class educational services at the lowest possible cost. The private sector, on the other hand, can only make a living if it delivers high quality services in a cheaper and better way than its competition. It will not be of concern to my government whether the privatized schools are run as ‘for-profit’ or ‘not-for-profit’ institutions. If, at the end of the process of maintaining a school and providing high quality educational services, a school can make a profit, this will only help, not hinder the supply of more good schools. Profitability is the finest signal of quality in a marketplace. There is no reason why it should not be allowed to apply in the case of schools. In this model, each child’s school education will be funded, individually, up to year (commonly known as ‘standard’ in India) 12, as follows:• Schooling will cost child ‘A’ nothing if parents choose a school which charges their ‘A’ a fee equal to or less than what the government is prepared to fund that particular child.• Schooling will be partially subsidized where parents choose a school which charges a fee for ‘A’ over and above what the government is prepared to fund that particular child.Schools will bill the government for each child individually. Schools will not receive funding as a lump-sum which is unrelated to the size and nature of their enrolments; they will get a specific amount for each specific child they enroll. Schools will therefore have the incentive to go out and literally beg parents – such as parents of child laborers – to send their children to school. The more the children that these schools can enroll and pass out at an agreed, independently tested standard, the greater the money they will receive. This method of private sector provision of education is as guaranteed to succeed as India’s current method is guaranteed to fail. This method will also ensure that the choices made by parents are honored. Honoring parents’ choices can only be a good thing. No one could be a greater well-wisher of a child than his or her own parents. A government should never interfere with a parent’s choices without very good reason – only if both parents have a conclusive record of neglecting their children can a government makes better decisions on behalf of the child. Let me now outline the model in detail.School Privatization• As a first step, government will get completely out of school ownership and management. Over the course of the first 30 months, all government schools will be privatized. Their land, buildings and equipment will be sold at market rates through an open tender in which educationists working in these schools will be encouraged, through a (small) preference in the conditions of the sale, to form consortiums which can be registered as companies or societies, and make a bid. It is expected that such consortiums can create a persuasive business case to raise bank loans and buy the schools with repayments to be made from earnings made over the years.• Funds raised from the sale of schools will form part of a one-off increase in government revenues to be used to offset the initial increase in core function expenditures.• The following conditions would apply to the sale:o The school’s land cannot be sold for 50 years. The government would retain the right to acquire land from school owners for other public purposes where it becomes necessary to do so, upon payment of slightly greater than market value, after making suitable arrangements for the children affected.o The school’s land or buildings cannot be used for any primary purpose other than school education. School owners will be allowed to operate business activities approved by the (local government) council from the school campus after school hours. There is no incompatibility between having temporary shops or a small gym as a side-business operating in the school building after school hours so long as the funds raised from these activities by the school help to keep it solvent and keep its fees low, while also meeting the quality standards prescribed by the education regulator.o The consortium which buys the school will not disadvantage existing staff for up to five years from the time of purchase of the school on a similar sliding scale referred to earlier.• Schools will not be protected from competition in any way. Practically anyone could set up a school anywhere, charge any fee and try to attract students. There will be no quotas or limits on the number of schools in an area, even if this may make it harder to raise loans. This openness is necessary to prevent monopolies of any sort arising in what should be a completely free market. So long as a school complies with quality requirements, through ‘deemed licensing’, it could be launched. Schools would self-assess against standards established by an independent association of educators nominated by the education industry, and notify the education regulator of their existence – that would amount to becoming a licensee. Stiff penalties would apply if a school was later found to have violated the standards. Schools would be permitted to enroll children only at the beginning of a school year and parents will not be able to change their children’s schools during the year unless there are exceptional circumstances. To prevent the financial collapse of schools through mismanagement, each school will be compulsorily required to purchase bankruptcy, fire, workers’ compensation and public liability insurance from the market, to be reinsured initially by the education regulator until the rates of school collapse are better assessed and private market premiums fine-tuned. If the buyers of a school turn out to be bad managers, or worse, this insurance will prevent the school from going belly-up and children from suffering.• This model will create a competitive market for high quality schooling. Only the most efficient schools, fully accountable to the parents for the quality of education they provide, will survive. Poorly managed schools will be bought out by more efficient schools. There will be no barrier to the potential size of a consortium. An efficient consortium could potentially buy out all schools in the country. So long as even one other efficient competitor could set up a school in any place in the country, the size of the consortium would not matter. Child-based funding would be the sole motive of the government.• School will bill the government each month (or quarter), seeking reimbursement against eligible vouchers (eligibility below) for each child, by name.• By the thirtieth month, government would have allotted a unique identification number to each child in India between the ages of four and eighteen, in preparation for this programme. This number would be linked to a database which records key biological features18 of the child and photographs of his/her parents, to prevent potential falsification of records commonly done by illegal immigrants to India. A new identification number would thereafter be allotted to each child who subsequently reaches the age of four. This database will be linked to the previous year’s income tax return of the child’s parents, and would generate a voucher of a specific value, linked to that income and to the expected educational costs for a child of that age. Vouchers will therefore differ in value. Children of poor parents will get vouchers of a much higher value than children of wealthy parents.• Children would go to a school selected by their parents. Parents would pay an amount over and above what the government voucher reimburses the school for each of their children separately. Poor parents would of course not pay anything since they would have high-value vouchers. Richer parents will pay a top-up amount.• This higher allocation for poorer parents is a crucial part of the model. The system today does not provide genuine equal opportunity even though it is based on the socialist ideology of equality. The quality difference between government and private schools is therefore quite vast, and does not allow children from rural areas or slums to prosper. Government’s policy would make schools in rural areas or slums extremely attractive to potential school owners, since children with predominantly high-value vouchers will attend such schools. Therefore schools in economically backward areas will be able to afford much higher salaries for teachers, and potentially attract even better teachers than schools in urban areas. In this manner, all schools will be able to provide a robust quality education at the minimum.• An annual adjustment would be applied to the value of a child’s voucher after the income of the child’s parents is declared to the tax office. Excess payments made for the child to the school would be recouped through the parent’s future taxes.• The voucher system will be managed by a range of private service providers under strict conditions of accountability. The independent education regulator will monitor the quality of these providers and ensure the overall integrity of the voucher system. Stiff penalties will apply if preventable fraud is detected at any level.• Schools would be required to report a child’s death or transfer from the school within one month to the voucher service provider. Should it be found that a school has charged the government for a child who was no longer studying there, the school will face financial penalties including potential withdrawal of the school’s license and criminal prosecution of the school owners.• Education departments and directorates, as well as inspectorates of schools, would be mostly disbanded by the end of the thirtieth month; many of their teaching and non-teaching staff would have been, by then, employed by the larger consortiums. The social infrastructure department, which will manage the overall budget for school education, will work with the independent education regulator to ensure that minimum outcome standards of educational attainment are met by each school, and that vouchers are administered properly.• Since the newly privatized schools are privatized government schools, these schools would be fall under public-private schools(PPS) and would only be licensed if the SCHOOL PRINCIPAL IS RECALLABLE BY CITIZENS. The schools would have to include the SAATYA SYTEM as a Part of the Comprehensive Internal Assessment. Enacting procedures to expel teaching staff 1. SCHOOL PRINCIPAL will be recallable by citizens (on grounds of not delivering quality education and corruption-related charges) 2. Jury procedure for/against a school teacher: If there is a complaint against a school teacher, and prima-facie doubt is established, a Jury of 10 citizens will be summoned. If over 7 Jurors decide that the teacher is misfit to serve the students, the teachers will be transferred to a different school. After 3 such transfers, he will be expelled.

The procedure of replacement of District Education Officer will alone go long way to improve education, and so will procedure to expel the teachers.Higher educationHigher education, on the other hand, is quite different from school education. There are no entitlements to this level of education. No one can demand that every tennis player should be allowed to play in the Wimbledon tournament. It is one thing to provide a level playing field for people to develop their talent and quite another to demand entry to the highest levels of human activity. There is a thing called justice, by which only the best person, who not only has the talent but who has put in the necessary hard work, must win entry to the portals of higher competition. Entry into a portal of higher education is similarly a privilege, contingent upon significant hard work. It has nothing to do with providing anyone a level playing field. Another reason why my government will not fund anyone’s higher education is because it would mean the “poor (taxpayer)” would subsidize the “future rich”. Tertiary institutions are ‘fishing nets’ to catch the society’s most talented people. Those who successfully complete tertiary education earn, on average, significantly more than those who are unable to gain admission to these institutions. The benefits of higher education are captured almost entirely by these people in exchange for services they provide when they join the workforce. Students going to tertiary institutes therefore will become much richer, on average, than the average taxpayer. If the average taxpayer were to subsidize their education it would amount to the poor subsidizing the (future) rich. There does remain the question of ensuring that all those who obtain admission to institutions of higher education are able to raise sufficient money to attend the courses. That can be easily resolved. In doing so, the policy outlined below will deliver the world’s best tertiary education system to India. The objective is to create a hundred Harvard Universities in India, each a centre of excellence operating only on student fees and alumni donations.• Low interest loans to tertiary sector students.• Tertiary institutions will charge full fee virtually from everyone barring the few to whom they give scholarships. By the government not funding tertiary institutions, significant tax revenues currently allocated to higher education will be released for more essential purposes (i.e diverted to R&D and S&T by paying huge salaries researchers which would make it the best lucrative job anywhere in the world), even as the quality of university education and infrastructure is significantly boosted by the open market fee charged by universities.• Those admitted to a course by any recognized tertiary education provider will be loaned money for 15 years at a low rate of interest (for example say 2%) by the government to attend that course. The economically backward can opt for STUDENT LOANS for ECONOMICALLY WEAK (SLEW)o An Indian citizen (not overseas citizen of India or permanent resident), who gains admission into an approved tertiary institution in India will be eligible to borrow from the government all fees charged by that institution, as well as the cost of necessary books and equipment and modest living costs.o These loans will bear a low interest – around two per cent more than the (variable) Reserve Bank rate. The repayment would be through the income tax system after the student gets a job and starts earning above three times the level of the poverty line. This loan will enable all meritorious persons in India to pursue higher education.o Even after India becomes completely free there will remain some tendency on the part of some students to leave the country after being educated at the taxpayers’ expense. Such students may not return the loan and also pay taxes to other countries which did not invest a rupee in their education, but potentially not repay their loans to India. Where similar schemes operate elsewhere, as in Australia, an international agreement will be sought by those countries to ensure these loans are refunded to India. Either way, a system to monitor departing students will be established. Passports and immigration officials will be given access to the database of student loans. Students who leave India – even on a temporary visit – will need to furnish a bank guarantee equivalent to the amount of their currently outstanding loan plus the present value of all costs incurred by taxpayers on their school education. This guarantee would be forfeited should they fail to return within the stipulated time. Those without proof of this guarantee will be turned back at the immigration check and not permitted to leave India.o How will these student loans be funded? The basis of this loan model is that income streams from university students are far more secure than houses or land. Almost all university graduates will earn well, making it a trivial task to recover their loans through the tax system. Therefore, a rolling debt model will be used. From the thirty-first month, ten-year bonds will be issued equal in today’s real value to the student loans expected to be issued (not repaid) that year. Prudent investors in India, including banks, will buy these bonds.o The bonds will be retired after ten years using multiple year recoveries from students who would by then be in the workforce, noting that not all bond repayments will be met from student loan recoveries in a particular year. Apart from mismatches of timing between student earnings and the face value of the bonds, the residual costs of administering this programme will have to be paid by the taxpayer as well, plus the difference in interest costs between the effective rate of the bonds and the Bank rate and a write-off for defaults. This amount will form a subsidy for higher education. The justification for this small subsidy is that it provides an equal opportunity – to those selected for higher education – to complete their courses. With efficient management, the subsidy will be reduced considerably.Tertiary sector privatization• As with schools, there is no reason for the government to manage the delivery of tertiary education. Indeed, there is even less reason, since no bureaucrat can teach an Einstein or tell him how to manage his discipline. Let experts manage their own institutions.•All government universities, technical colleges and the like will be sold off by the thirtieth month on the same pattern as schools, and accredited by imposing on them a few conditions necessary to demarcate them as institutions of tertiary education. These institutions will become for-profit corporations with shares traded on the stock market. Their sole business objective would be to provide tertiary education and they would use their lands for the primary purpose of higher education for 999 years.• They will have operational independence. They would set their own salary structures to attract distinguished academic professionals and, consequently, bright students. They would determine the type and quality of tertiary education services they wish to deliver, the mix of courses to offer and other things that universities do. The competitive market will then deliver the best mix of options for students. Not one rupee will be spent on any ‘educational planner’ to predict the demand for graduates in specific areas. Only that much higher education will be provided as the market needs and will bear.• The reason why universities won’t jack up their fees to astronomical levels upon privatization is because of their critical need to attract customers – in this case, high quality students. High quality students, like any other self-interested person, will look for good quality but low cost education and force the fees down to competitive levels.• Will some academic disciplines be ousted from the teaching agenda by this model? Doubting Thomases will argue that privatization will affect the supply of courses in arts and philosophy. But this argument is without basis. Modern private sector corporations recognize the great value of liberal education in broadening the perspectives of managers. Indeed, arts graduates do better in modern businesses than technical graduates because innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership, people management and strategic thinking have little to do with technical skills.• In this manner, the freely operating tertiary education market will decide what courses are needed for India. I imagine we would get a hundred Indian Harvard Universities in a few decades through this model.Enacting procedures to expel teaching staff 1. COLLEGE PRINCIPAL will be recallable by citizens (on grounds of not delivering quality education and corruption-related charges) 2. Jury procedure for/against a school teacher: If there is a complaint against a professor, and prima-facie doubt is established, a Jury of 10 citizens will be summoned. If over 7 Jurors decide that the teacher is misfit to serve the students, the teachers will be transferred to a different school. After 3 such transfers, he will be expelled.

The procedure of replacement of District Education Officer will alone go long way to improve education, and so will procedure to expel the expel teaching staff ..

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